Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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1 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |
2 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
3 | No , Hayden says if we go to Comet cos he said , cos I said I bought my video at Comet and they were offering twenty five per cent off , twenty five per cent off off the at Comet so that 's about the third of the place . |
4 | Which is like the third of the tri-glossic |
5 | It is from the third movement of the ‘ Lützow ’ Piano Concerto , k242 , and shows accentual emphasis put into sharp focus in a pattern of clear stroke over the first , dots over the following quavers — a pattern repeated a number of times in exactly the same manner . |
6 | The great growth in Christianity at the present time is in the Third World and those parts of Eastern Europe that are still under atheistic leadership . |
7 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
8 | Though there has been good response in the first two areas , it is in the third that the brief hints in the text have been totally transcended through the amazing growth of lay groups meeting for prayer or study , representing various degrees of organization or none , some purely Catholic but most of them ecumenically open . |
9 | The real trouble is in the Third World . |
10 | The style that Rosa Guy uses in ‘ The Disappearance ’ is in the third person singular and apart from the descriptive parts , a large majority of the book is written in dialogue form . |
11 | The first leg is in the third race , the eight o'clock , this is the first quarter final . |
12 | ‘ It 's on the third floor , ’ said Zanya . |
13 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |